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TIL 4% of people have never had a headache

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w8Lo TIL that there are about 200 dead frozen bodies on Mount Everest. Many of which you must pass to get to the summit. Some are used as waypoints… yes, there are pics.
e054L TIL the reason you can't buy cashew nuts in their shell is because they are toxic to the touch, similar to poison ivy
nWp9 TIL When visiting the US, Russian President Boris Yeltsin got so drunk he left the White House, in his underwear, to go get pizza.
d80y8 TIL Robert Millikan disliked Einstein's results about light consisting of particles (photons) and carefully designed experiments to disprove them, but ended up confirming the particle nature of light, and earned a Nobel Prize for that.
67BJ TIL that a year after its initial publication in 1908, Theodore Roosevelt (then-president of the U.S.), loved the children’s book “The Wind in the Willows” so much that he wrote the author saying that he had “read it, reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends”.